muleskinner
Inspired
Hi,
I've finally figured out why I can't get the bass tone I'm after.
I need a drive block running in parallel with a clean tone. The 'mix' knob on the drive block doesn't work as (as has been discussed) it filters the signal removing a lot of the low end which is hopeless for bass.
I can get a nice driven tone but as soon as I switch the clean tone back in to bring the bottom end back everything sounds like a phasey mush to me. On analysing the recorded waveform in Logic I can clearly see that the drive block is shifting the phase of the signal (and/or introducing latency, whatever the correct terminology) therefore causing phase cancellation issues with the clean tone. Probably a lot more obvious on bass than on guitar.
Is there any way round this? I tried adding a bypassed drive block to the clean tone but that doesn't seem to make any difference, and I can't get a 'true bypassed' signal out of an active drive block.
Maybe I could add some latency to the clean tone with a digital delay to try and get them to match? Seems like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut though...
cheers
I've finally figured out why I can't get the bass tone I'm after.
I need a drive block running in parallel with a clean tone. The 'mix' knob on the drive block doesn't work as (as has been discussed) it filters the signal removing a lot of the low end which is hopeless for bass.
I can get a nice driven tone but as soon as I switch the clean tone back in to bring the bottom end back everything sounds like a phasey mush to me. On analysing the recorded waveform in Logic I can clearly see that the drive block is shifting the phase of the signal (and/or introducing latency, whatever the correct terminology) therefore causing phase cancellation issues with the clean tone. Probably a lot more obvious on bass than on guitar.
Is there any way round this? I tried adding a bypassed drive block to the clean tone but that doesn't seem to make any difference, and I can't get a 'true bypassed' signal out of an active drive block.
Maybe I could add some latency to the clean tone with a digital delay to try and get them to match? Seems like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut though...
cheers